Reserve supply-tank.



E. GREENE.

RESERVE SUPPLY TANK.

APPLICATION FILED 00119, 1910.

Patented Sept. 10, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed. Dctober 19, 1910. Serial no. 587,913.

To all whom is may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN GREENE, a citizen of the United States, residing'at Ros well, in the county of Shaves, New Mexico, have invented certain and useful linprovcments in ltescrve Supply-Tanks; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the. art to which it ao-lertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to nuprovemcnts in reserve supply tanks, end has for one of its described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and n the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is aside cle-vatiompdrtl'y in section, or the improved device. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-9 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the supply pipe showing the manner" in which it is passed through the stuffing. boxes.

The improved device comprises in general a reservoir or receptacle for the material which is to be burned, another receptacle in which the material is burned, a supply pipe connecting the reservoir with the burner receptacle, and means whereby the pipe may be adjusted to control. the

supply of time which the flow shall continue len th "from one vessel to the other and thereby controlling the length z=f time which the supply shall continue, and consequently the length of time that the burning shall continue. The reservoir or receptacle for the supply of burning material may be of any required size and of any suitable material, and is represented conventionally at 10. The reservoir is generally-coustructed of relatively heavy sheet metal and. provided with a swinging closurcll. The other receptacle may also be ot any required size and of any suitable material, but will preferably be of heavy, sheet metal of sufficient agate withstand the heat to which it will esubjeoted,

and is represented conventionally at 12 and provided with a closure 13 preferably hingedly connected. to the vessel 12, as shown. The reservoir 10 is necessarily much larger than the receptacle 12 and the two-receptacles are preferably of the some level and will generally rest upon the ground in the orchard when employed as a heater, or in the neighborhood of the plants which are to be treated when the device is employed as an insect destroyer or as a fumigator. Connected into the reservoir 10 is a nipple 14 which is secured liquid-tight to the receptacle by the usual jzun' nuts 15-16 and likewise provided with a. suitable packing. A. similar nipple 17 leads from the receptacle 1:1 and secured liquidtight therein. by jam nuts 18-19. The nipples 14-47 are located preferably near the bottoms of the receptacles 10-12, as shown.

Referring more specifically to the drawings itwill be seen that the nipples 14 and l? are extended some distance outwardly from the reservoir and receptacle and are pro-: vided. upon their outer ends with glands and gland nuts 28 andfil. These nipples 14.- and 1'? form in cii'ect, stuiling' boxes for a pipe member 29 one end of which extends into the reservoir and is provided with an upwardly directed terminal shown at 30 while the other 'end extends into the receptacle as shown. This pipe is rotatable in the glands and nipples and forms the supply pipe for furnishing the fuel to the receptacle.

Upon the exposed portion of the pipe between the outer ends of the nipples is an arm 31 which is clamped to the pipe in any preferred manner and which is provided at one end with a laterally directed terminal forminga pointer 32 which coacts with a scale 33 formed upon the side of the reservoir and acts to indicate the angle at which the ter-' minal 30 of the supply pipe is disposed.

As will be readily seen as soon as thelevel vof the liquid in the reservoir gets below the upper end of the pipe member 30 all flow of liquid between the reservoir and the receptacleovill be cut oft. The scale 33 consists of a. series of graduations denoting;- various heights of liquid in the receptacle and by this means the terminal 30 of the pipe member 29 may be set at any desired. height Within the reservoir.

In operation the reservoir is filled with the fuel, the points is set at the point upon the-scale indicatihg the depth at which the flow of liquid to the receptacle is to be cutlarly extending end on said pipe Within said 30 oil and as Will be readily understood the fuel. reservoir, a pointer arm secured to said pipe will flow from the reservoir to the receptacle intermediate the reservoir and receiver, and until the level of the fluid in the reservoir a scale in operative relation to said pointer has reached the open end of the terminal 30 arm.

of the pipe member 29 after which all flow 2. The combination with a reservoir and a 35 will cease and no more liquid will pass to the receptacle, of nipples extending through the receptacle. sides of said reservoir and receptacle, glands The improved device is simple in con carried by the outer ends of said nipples, a struction, may be constructed from any ma- I straight supply pipe extending through said terial and of any suitable capacity, and will be found convenient and useful for the purmg Within the reservoir and receptacle, the poses required When in use the closure 13 end of said pipe extending within the reserof the receptacle 12 will remain open to per- ,voir being provided with a laterally directed 15 mit the free escape of the heat from the terminal, a scale formed upon the outer Wall glands and nipples and with its ends extend- 40 burning liquid, and may be closed to quench ot the reservoir, and an arm clamped to the 45 the tire at any time required. intermediate portion of the supply pipe and The reservoir 10 and the receiver 12 are extending in parallel relation to the laterally each preferably formed of a single sheet of directed terminal thereof, said arm acting as metal folded at the corners as shown,'so that an indicator in connection with the scale and no riveting or other seams are employed in also serving as a means for rotating the sup-i 5f the receiver or the reservoir. ply pipe within the nip les and glands.

What is claimed is In testimony Whereo ,l' afiix my signature, n a device of the character described, in presence of two Witnesses. including a reservoir and a receiver, stufiing i ,4 4 i boxes carried by the Walls of said reservoir ,t EDWIN and receiver, a supply pipe connecting the Witnesses: reservoir with the receiver and passing J. M. Hnnvnr,

through said stufiing'boxes'and an angu-l J M. OBBIEN. 

